What are 21st Century Skills? Why are they important? Why are our students called digital natives, and why are teachers considered digital immigrants? Are students today really different? What are the implications for teaching and learning? And what do I really need to be able to do with technology to be a good teacher? In this workshop we will explore the answers to these questions and develop individual professional plans to meet the challenges of preparing our students today for a tomorrow we can barely imagine.
Workshop Goals
To become aware of and appreciate the issue and the stakes
To become aware of 21st Century Skills and NETS•S Standards
To become aware of Web 2.0
Understand essential difference from Web 1.0
Identify some Web 2.0 tools
To understand role of LoTi Questionnaire and Levels of Implementation
Know own levels and how to interpret survey results
Create own Tech goals and immediate plan based on LoTi results and 21st Century Skills/NETS•S for students
Pre-Assessment
Moodle Quiz -- Log in using your LMSD username and password. Select "Technology Workshops," then "21st Century Skills."
You do NOT have to know all the technology you make available to your students in the classroom
You DO have to supervise its use
You DO have to monitor the products
You DO NOT HAVE TO master the tools
Students will learn how to use tools faster than you and they can teach you and each other very efficiently and effectively as the tools are being used
Small group work is very effective for this kind of transfer of learning
In class experts often gives leadership roles to students that have not previously had that opportunity (and may help engage them more in class in the future)
Don’t try to go it alone; partner with colleagues
GSDO, don’t ISDO
Seek out a Tech Mentor; get in a group
Partner with someone in the Leadership Cadre
Capitalize on the Elem Tech Facilitator group work
Sign up for tech workshops with a colleague or two
Start a Professional Learning Group and incorporate technology as a component of your study and work
Request Tech Department consultation (email Tom, Rhonda, or Bill; or Marilyn – HS CFF Coach)
Consult and/or lobby your curriculum supervisor
Request and attend a technology seminar or conference with one or more colleagues
Take small steps; try one or two things at a time; focus initial implementation in a limited time frame
Table of Contents
21st Century Skills
What are 21st Century Skills? Why are they important? Why are our students called digital natives, and why are teachers considered digital immigrants? Are students today really different? What are the implications for teaching and learning? And what do I really need to be able to do with technology to be a good teacher? In this workshop we will explore the answers to these questions and develop individual professional plans to meet the challenges of preparing our students today for a tomorrow we can barely imagine.Workshop Goals
Pre-Assessment
Moodle Quiz -- Log in using your LMSD username and password. Select "Technology Workshops," then "21st Century Skills."Text/IM Abbreviations
The Stakes
For Further Reading
Web 2.0
The Standards
LoTi/DETAILS Survey results
What Can We Do?
Making a Personal Professional Technology Plan
Technology Professional Planning Worksheet --